Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

Use a beloved toy as a jumping-off point for a fantastic storytelling exercise in this activity that will get the littlest ones thinking about creative writing.

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

What are you the most thankful for? Challenge your kid to think about all the reasons he has to be thankful and make a turkey featuring one particular thing.

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

Get creative with this engaging activity where kids are asked to create their own pumpkin person and tap into their creative writing skills! Include all family members by having them create their very own pumpkin people.

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills! 

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

Introduce your child to preliminary science concepts by challenging them to do this fun and simple cloud observation activity.

This 4th of July, end the battle for independence in your house, and show your child just how much freedom she can enjoy.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

Childhood summers are magical, full of splashy fun and relaxing afternoons. Preserving those memories should be special as well.